Tag: Environment

Ocean assets such as fisheries, shipping lanes and tourism are worth $24 trillion and produce an annual value of $2.5 trillion from their outputs, says a latest report by the conservation group World Wide Fund (WWF).

Economic output by the world’s oceans is worth $2.5 trillion a year, rivalling nations such as Britain or Brazil, but marine wealth is sinking fast because of over-fishing, pollution and climate change, a study saidon Thursday.

In the wake of implementation of a project, many villagers including the high Barind tract are getting safe drinking water for the last couple of years.

Over 17, 000 families in 46 unions under six upazilas of the district were badly affected by the Saturday’s Nor’wester.

Seven dwelling houses of Charmodhua village under Raipura upazila were devoured on Monday by sudden erosion of Meghna River.

Nor-wester disrupted power supply in Barisal for about four hours on Sunday afternoon till night.

California oil producers used 214 acre-feet of water, equivalent to nearly 70 million gallons, in the process of fracking for oil and gas in the state last year, less than previously projected, state officials told Reuters on Thursday.

Beijing has introduced measures to limit the number of motorists on heavily polluted days, the latest move by authorities in the Chinese capital to battle the choking smog that has blanketed the city in recent years.

A mobile court of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) in an anti-adulteration drive today fined a bakery and evicted illegal shops from the roadside footpaths in the city, official sources said.  

Contrary to popular belief, cold snaps like the ones that hit the eastern United States in the past winter are not a consequence of climate change, says a new study.

Glaciers in the upstream basin of the Brahmaputra, a 2,900-km-long river that originates from Tibet and flows into the Bay of Bengal, are likely to reduce alarmingly by the middle of the 21st century, according to an international body which…

The activities of re-excavation of Kurigram Zilla Parishad pond as  voluntary basis by the members of Zilla Parishad Kormokorta Kormochari Samity is going on periodically on Sunday.

Participants of a human chain rally in Barisal Sunday called for immediate adaptations and implementation of coordinated water management system.

Speakers at a participatory discussion have unequivocally called for taking an effective and urgent step to protect the existing water resources in the region particularly in its vast tract of Barind area from furthermore degradation.

Without better local management, world’s most iconic ecosystems are at risk of collapse under climate change, warn researchers.

To 19th century British naturalist Charles Darwin, they were the strangest animals yet discovered, one looking like a hybrid of a hippo, rhino and rodent and another resembling a humpless camel with an elephant’s trunk.

Cultivation of various crops has become popular on the dried up riverbeds and low-lying char lands in the river basins bringing fortune to thousands of the river-eroded, landless and extremely poor people in recent years.

Speakers at an open discussion have stressed the need for collective efforts for conducting an accurate survey on surface water and ensuring safe water from source to consumers to protect the city dwellers from various waterborne diseases.

Scientists have discovered a bizarre human-sized lobster ancestor that lived 480 million years ago.

Extensive pumpkin cultivation on raised sandbars in the silted-up bodies of different rivers in five districts of greater Rangpur has brought fortune to 14,357 river erosion victim extremely poor families in recent years.

The growth in global carbon emissions stalled last year, according to data from the International Energy Agency.

Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has started implementing a canal water conservation project aims at lessening the gradually increasing pressure on groundwater for irrigation purposes.

The first truffle to have been cultivated on UK soil has been harvested from a field in Leicestershire, according to a plant biologist.

Emphasis should be given on soil health management rightly for protecting its productivity as the soil nutrients has gradually been declining, researchers concerned said.

Hundreds of the river-eroded homeless women have achieved self-reliance to lead better life with family members after their successful rehabilitation under the government’s ‘Asrayan Prokalpo’ in the district.

Solar Impulse is back in the air on the second leg of its historic attempt to fly around the world.